What is with all of the disappearing questions and deals?

May 28, 2012 12:50 PM

so last night, I posted a question and it immediately disappeared. It didn't show under my name, or on the fresh tab. So I reposted it... and guess what... ? It finally showed up. I also posted a deal...

This morning, my question, my deal, and all of the other questions/deals from last night are gone.

Is this a "new feature" or is there a mod that's just gone insane and decided to delete everything?

Top Answers

I've noticed that if you are still logged in, and have not logged out since before the changeover, many new features do not work properly (or at all). I had even sent in a comment on it. I finally tried logging out and logging back in, and that seems to have fixed most of it.

The database problems are another matter. Knowing how Deals stores things, my guess is that if they're gone, they're just gone, never to return. I voted on a deal @faughtey had posted last night, and the deal is gone. I expect to spend less time here, but will remain invokable for the time being.

cf. The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (Aesop's Fables)
cf. The Frogs Who Desired a King (ibid)

It's interesting to note that I no longer visit Amazon much, either. I go there if I'm looking for something specific, but it's no longer a destination (and hasn't been for some time).

@okham: Ugh. No congratulations, please. It's not a position I sought, and I'm sure that it's only there because of the lack of activity on the site for 24 hours. Trust me, if I ever have another question I honestly want the answer to, I'll either use theflounder, or jamesbondqbranch, to ask it. Don't hold your breath, though.

[Edit] I don't know whether I can vote on deals or not. I haven't tried it. I'm currently only responding when invoked on Questions, and otherwise, not even looking at the site. I'm off to throw algae upon the lawn (okay, okay, I'm spraying it), so I won't even know the fate of this comment until later.

BTW, I note that some of my comments suggesting that the change is not for the better are being downvoted, and I innocently point out that traffic analysis is easy. Bleagh. I hate downvoting. It just seems to bring out the worst in people.

Ok, this is getting old. My LOTR deal I reposted, the 3 other deals, along with several upvotes I know I posted since 9 am, are all gone. @jumbowoot, can we expect this to continue for the next while? Because I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Well, it got better and now it's back. Every deal I posted today has disappeared, including a couple that were pretty popular. I haven't checked comments yet, but some of my votes are not showing as recorded either. @Jumbowoot, is there something that can be done or do I need to just toss my hands up and give up for the day?

I spend several hours a day picking out the best of the free ebooks offered per day and post them to Woot as I did today. I posted about 15 deals today and the deals, all comments, and votes are all gone. It appears I am not the only one this has happened to. Some of them were posted by me a second time and they disappeared again.

I've noticed that if you are still logged in, and have not logged out since before the changeover, many new features do not work properly (or at all). I had even sent in a comment on it. I finally tried logging out and logging back in, and that seems to have fixed most of it.

The database problems are another matter. Knowing how Deals stores things, my guess is that if they're gone, they're just gone, never to return. I voted on a deal @faughtey had posted last night, and the deal is gone. I expect to spend less time here, but will remain invokable for the time being.

cf. The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (Aesop's Fables)
cf. The Frogs Who Desired a King (ibid)

It's interesting to note that I no longer visit Amazon much, either. I go there if I'm looking for something specific, but it's no longer a destination (and hasn't been for some time).

Yep, deal is gone. I also noticed I couldn't vote on deals unless I clicked on them and then it didn't show as if I had voted.
Refreshing the page seems to have fixed that, it works as it did before now.

@okham: Ugh. No congratulations, please. It's not a position I sought, and I'm sure that it's only there because of the lack of activity on the site for 24 hours. Trust me, if I ever have another question I honestly want the answer to, I'll either use theflounder, or jamesbondqbranch, to ask it. Don't hold your breath, though.

[Edit] I don't know whether I can vote on deals or not. I haven't tried it. I'm currently only responding when invoked on Questions, and otherwise, not even looking at the site. I'm off to throw algae upon the lawn (okay, okay, I'm spraying it), so I won't even know the fate of this comment until later.

BTW, I note that some of my comments suggesting that the change is not for the better are being downvoted, and I innocently point out that traffic analysis is easy. Bleagh. I hate downvoting. It just seems to bring out the worst in people.

Yeah, I commented on 4 questions last night. Put my computer to sleep, woke it up this morning and reloaded all of my tabs to find 3 of the 4 were deleted (though one of them I was expecting it because it was getting off-topic and was going towards flaming.. )

The Deals.Woot data repository unraveled and flailed around the office like a scene from The Beast (1996). We have been working on identifying if there is any way to recover lost deals/questions/comments that have been posted today. At this point, it does not seem likely, but we will continue to look into it.

Sorry. Forgot to mention this. Some of the deals that I posted earlier today that had received a lot of upvotes and later disappeared, have now been posted again by other folks and are receiving positive attention. (sigh) Good for them, I guess.

Yeah, I had posted a free book deal that disappeared earlier and was wondering if I had just made a misstep against terms and conditions(okham and belyndag had both posted on it). Glad to hear it wasn't just me, but I would like to let people know about the deal. Should I go ahead and repost it?

@kkauffany: I say repost it! I'm not reposting my earlier deals but most have been reposted by others, anyway. In your case I suggest that you repost your book and let everyone know that you are the author. I think we've got a number of scifi fans out here who will be happy to give you some feedback.

I'm guessing the sever restarted and there was no save-file prior to the restart so all the posts were reverted to what looks like before the server maintenance.

Just a wild guess for me. I ran a Ragnarok Online private sever back in my high school days and this usually happens the first time I run the sever for the first time after going through all the config files but I guess I its a result of not reading everything. So like, when I restart the server from a result of a crash everything didn't save in between the last save to the moment of the crash because I didn't set the game save interval to a small number. Which I kinda thought it was dumb since why would I want to set a save interval to something pretty long.

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Not a farewell, just a forced redirect.

It's true, Local.Woot is no longer, but please don't despair.

Never-ending savings are still to be found on Deals.Woot each and every day, so come on in. Don't think of it as a time for tears. Think of it as a way to bring us all closer together under one roof.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.